[4][5] He graduated from Dartmouth College, Phi Beta Kappa in 1841,[6] and Andover Theological Seminary in 1846.

He served as the first minister of the Pearl Street Congregational Church, founded in 1847 in Nashua, New Hampshire.

[7] He wrote five sermons that were published as booklets:[5] Our Banners Set Up (1861),[8] God in the Strife (1861),[9] On the Death of President Lincoln (1865),[10] On the Death of Rowell Park Perry and Lemuel Grosvenor Perry (1867),[11] and God's Ownership of the Sea (1869)[5][12] In 1858 two hymns that he wrote were published in the Sabbath Hymn Book (a hymnal), anonymously.

[2] On Sunday September 29th, 1867, he delivered a sermon commemorating the life of Brown University Professor Robinson Potter Dunn at Central Church.

[17] He also served as secretary for the Evangelical Consociation of Rhode Island[2] and was Vice President of the American Missionary Association.